AN EVENING OF WORKS BY LISA CRAFTS
Dir. Lisa Crafts
Films made 1976-2021
United States. 63 min

ONE NIGHT ONLY:
DECEMBER 4 - 7 PM

The films of New York animator Lisa Crafts display an artist’s engagement in a unique dialogue with the world. Our career-spanning program opens in 1976 with the exuberantly sex-positive cel animated optimism of Desire Pie. Glass Gardens, from 1982, depicts a hopeful vision of a quiet apocalypse, one in which artists are left to glean inspiration from abandoned landscapes. 2015’s Season Of Wonder presents a darkly surrealist vision of the ominous dread of life during the climate crisis. And current ongoing series Chimeric Portraits presents a bittersweet hope for life during and beyond of the Anthropocene era. Throughout, the animation techniques Crafts deploys, and often invents, in her filmmaking are as essential to the work as the themes they express.
Drawing from Crafts’ complete body of work, we’ll also present rare pieces previously seen only in gallery settings and whimsical shorts made for Sesame Street, followed by a conversation with the artist.

SHORT FILM PROGRAM:
GLASS GARDENS 1982 7 minutes Music by Laraaji
SESAME STREET SHORTS 1990s 9 minutes co-director Ken Brown
THE FLOODED PLAYGROUND 2005 20 minutes
4 NATURES MORTES 2011-2013 4 minutes
LANDSCAPES 2009-2013 7 minutes
SEASON OF WONDER 2015 8 minutes
CHIMERIC PORTRAITS 2021 10 minutes
DESIRE PIE 1976 5 minutes